Read 8 damning emails from behind the scenes of the Healthcare.gov meltdown

The Verge ^

[TigerClaws]

We all now know what happened with the federal healthcare marketplace, Healthcare.gov. The three-year development was complicated by changing specifications, and the government's convoluted procurement process meant entrenched companies were getting contracts over and over. But a wave of government accountability reports, concluded after months of investigations, is bringing new attention to the meltdown.

The Government Office of Accountability released a report earlier this week detailing the security flaws in the site, but a report from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released yesterday is even more damning.

[KoRn]

May be of interest.

(don’t know whether to laugh or cry. lol)

[bitt]

I enjoyed reading these.

Made me smile, although I regret that several millions of tax dollars were thrown at Mooch’s friends to create a rinky-dink website that should have cost less than 100K....

And I feel sorry for the poor suckers who spent many man hours trying to get through the website, only to fail..

..and for the poor suckers who were hacked as soon as they entered the portal...

[bitt]

pint to crooks

[Jet Jaguar]

As The Verge reported at the time, CMS pulled some of the Healthcare.gov code from Github because they were worried about programmers bashing the site in bug reports. “[T]his Github project has turned into a place for programmers to bash our system ... I am sure there may be some blowback from this decision but I think it is better to take a short term hit with this deletion than to let this bashing of the source code continue on our official Github site on an ongoing basis.”

Two days after the launch, HHS’s Bryan Sivak wrote “This is a fddking disaster. It’s 1am and they don’t even know what the problem is, for sure. Basic testing should have been done hours ago that hasn’t been done.” A CMS employee responded, “This is going to turn ugly and someone is going to leak that CMS has no clue about the problem.”

Well, yeah.

[KoRn]

As much as I hate to say it, because they didn’t really know any better, but anyone stupid enough to use that site probably DESERVES to have their information compromised.

If heaven forbid, I were forced into using that for insurance, I’d go to some .gov office and do it on paper.(is that even an option?) I say this, I work in IT, and do ALL of my business online.

That website is an unmitigated DISASTER, and there are probably hacker groups(most likely in Russia & China) around the world that has nearly all of the information that has been submitted to it. The people using it are like sheep sent to the slaughter.

[Jane Long]

[bitt]

as to your point, I do very little financial business online.

[John Robinson]

Paper applications, iirc, were/are transcribed directly onto the website. What an unmitigated disaster. Rob Ford, high on crack, could have done a better job managing that catastrophe.

[LucyT]

Thanks, bitt.

[tumblindice]

That one always cracks me up. I’ve seen a version where she’s wearing an eye-patch.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Bullish]

Govt is inhabited by certifiable mental cases and they wonder why we can’t stand them.

The more money they take from us the more dangerous they become.

[Bullish]

Several million? Last I heard this piece of crap unworkable website cost upwards of 800 million. And you’re right, this crappy site could have been done for less then 10k.

[Focault's Pendulum]

And I feel sorry for the poor suckers who spent many man hours trying to get through the website, only to fail..

Their back end still isn't working correctly. People who signed up are finding they have no coverage because the payment system is f@#$ed up.

I personally know 3 people this happened to. Glad I don't like these fools too much.

[Organic Panic]

Nothing a couple extra trillion dollars won’t fix.

Don’t forget April 15th is tax day. Now get back to work plebes.

[poobear]

Yep. That auto-draft payment from your banking account is quite a “feature”. wink, wink

[maddog55]

Heathcare,gov website cost to build are at or near $1.0B.

[Liz]

I regret that several millions of tax dollars were thrown at Mooch’s friends to create a rinky-dink website that should have cost less than 100K....I feel sorry for the poor suckers who spent hours trying to get through....and for those who were hacked as soon as they entered the portal...

Thanks for the heads-up......not to worry....O/Care will become even more unpopular and expensive, and will fall under its own weight......and then the helpful Dummycrats will “fix” it to keep the fraud going a little longer...

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LEST WE FORGET----Obamacare is a HUGE voter fraud machine----plugging unsuspecting enrollees into Democrat voter rolls.

NEWS FLASH--Local couple upset after receiving pre-marked voter registration card from "Covered California" (Cali O/Care)
10news | 03-29-2014 | Preston Phillips / FR Posted by Kevin in California

A local couple called 10News concerned after they received an envelope from the state's Obamacare website, Covered California. Inside was a letter discussing voter registration and a registration card pre-marked with an "x" in the box next to Democratic Party.

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Here's another "surprise" (cackle). Turns out Obamacare is a vehicle for consolidating Dummycrat power.....w/ a multi-billion dollar slush fund.

The Untraceable $8 Billion ObamaCare PR Budget---truly govt fraud at its finest. Egged on by Pelosi, no one in Congress told Americans about Section 4002---which mandates an $8B untraceable fund to "promote" Obamacare (apparently b/c Boobamba had so little confidence in his signature legislation).

In 2010 Taxpayers are extorted $500 million, in 2011, $750 million, 2012, $1 billion, 2013, $1.25 billion, 2014, $1.5 billion and in 2015 and on, $2 billion........

....the reasons for all those O/Care delays, fixits, exemptions, waivers, extensions, etc, are becoming crystal clear......

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Obamacare pulls off yet another other scam -- Obama/Dummycrats siphon off tax dollars:

Some observers note that the Democrat-controlled Senate passed Obamacare "after a series of unsavory transactions that purchased the aye votes of several shrewdly extortionate Democrats"....with a huge pile of money still unaccounted for.

The most unsavory was Landrieu's $4.3 billion "Louisisana Purchase."

THE PAPER TRAIL IS HUGE Sen Landrieu (Scumocrat-LA) sold her aye vote in what Forbes Magazine dubbed "The 'Louisiana Purchase" that included a massive $4.3 Billion to Landrieu

FORBES REPORTED the Democrats’ nailed Landrieu’s support for Obamacare w/ a greenback bribe. Landrieu, critics believe, pledged her vote in exchange for some $200 million more additional federal funds for Louisiana. Except that, due to a drafting error, the law ended up giving Louisiana $4.3 billion: more than twenty times the assigned amount. MORE HERE http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml

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BACKSTORY In the fall of 2009, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was trying to get the necessary 60 Dimocrat votes to pass the Affordable Care Act. He needed every Dim on board, which gave waffling senators a great deal of leverage. In Landrieu's case, she connivingly saw that selling her aye vote could get her maybe $200 million federal dollars. Obama complied. Reid chalked up another vote for Obamacare. But not the measly $200 million but $4.3 billon was attached to the Obamacare bill earmarked for Landrieu.

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How $4.3 billion to Landrieu was calculatedly attached to the Obamacare bill, and how Obama and Reid failed to catch and fix it, is yet another indictment of the Obamacare atrocity. The payoff to Landrieu should be investigated as an indication of how EVERY Democrat came to vote for Obamacare....and will help elect more lock-stepping Democrats.

[hoosiermama]

Send that idea about Landreau to her opponent Or the NOLA newspapers